Name: Francois Steiner

Born: Paris, 1962

Career: Civil servant; consultant for Arthur Andersen; senior consultant for Boston Consulting Group; deputy managing director of Saresco; now president of Louis Vuitton Europe.

Education: Polytechnique; ENSAE; studied international finance at Universite Paris Dauphine.

Why he is in the news: He has just opened Ireland's first Louis Vuitton shop, inside Dublin's Brown Thomas store.